Headlight-operating mechanism.



J. M. PRYER.

HEADLIGHT OPERATING MECHANISM.

APPLIOATION FILED NOV.2 5, 1011.

Patented Aug. 13, 1912.

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witweooeo J. M. FRYER.

HEADLIGHT OPERATING MECHANISM. APPLIOATION FILED 110125, 1911.

1,035,569. Patented Aug.13,1912.

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JAMES MAIJIfSON FRYER, OF MIDDLETOWN, OHIO.

HEADLIGHT-OPERATING MECHANISM.

I '0 all who'm, it concern:

Be it known that- I, JAMES MADISON FRYER, acitizen of the United States, residing at Middletown, in thecounty of Butler and" State of Ohio. have invented certain 'new anduseful Improvements in Headlightpperating mechanism for use especially on automobiles, to automatically turn one of the head lights in the direction to be taken by the automobile and leave the other head light arranged to throw its rays straight ahead, themventron consisting 1n the constructlon, combination and arrangement of devices hereinafter describedand claimed.

In the accompanying drawings: Figurel is a side elevation of a portion of an automobile provided with head lights and automatically operating means therefonin accordance with my invention, the parts of the automobile being indicatedyin outline; Fig. 2-is a front elevation of the same; Fi 3 is a plan of the same; Fig. 4'15 a detall elevation, partly in section, showing the hearing and theffork shaft of one of the head lights; and 'Fig. 5 is a horizontal sectional view ofthe same on the plane indicated by the line aa of Fig. 4.

For the purposes of this specification a portion of the frame of an automobile is in dicated-at 1, the hood at2, the front wheels at 3, the steering wheel at 4, the steering wheel shaft at 5. and the guiding shaft, which is geared to the steering wheel shaft, at 6. In accordance with my invention I secure a pulley 7 on the shaft 6.

On opposite sides of the frame, at the front end of the car, are bearin s 8, each of which comprises a main menu er or base portion 9 and a removable member 10. The main member is provided at-itslends-with lugs 11, through which extend bolts 12 that secure the same 'to the car frame.

Each member 10 is secured to one ofthe members 9 detachably, by means of bolts 13. The

. members 9, 10 are provided intheir opposing sides with cylindrical bearingopenin s 14 for the reception of the shafts or stan was 15 of the'forks 16 which carry the I head lights or lamps 17. Thebearing memhers 9," 10 are also chambered, between, their up or and lower sides, as at 18,'the diamelter-pfi the chambers 18 exceeding that of the shafts 15. Each of the saidshafts Specification of Letters Patent. Patented A 10; 1 3 1912. I Application filed November 25, 191 1. Serial No. 662,299.

is provided with a collar 19 which forms an aunular flange and bears on the upper side of the bearing and is also provided, at its lower end, with aullcy 20 which bears against. the lower sidi: of the hearing, I and pulleys enacting to hold the shaft in place agains' ll; vertical movementfbut permitting the s iaft to partly turn in the hearing, as herein described. Each shaft is also provided with a radial shoulder'Ql. on one side to coact with a similar shoulder 22 to form a-stop for the shaft, and in each chamber 18 is a spring 23, here shown as a coil spring, disposed around the shaft and having one end secured thereto, as at 2%, and the other end secured to the hearing, as at These springs serve to turn the shafts so as to normally keep the stop shoulders of the shafts and hearings in engagement and thereby hold the shafts normally in the parallel with the body of the car and hence cause the rays of the head lights to be thrown straight ahead.

. .An operating cord 26 is partly wound on the. pulley or drum 7 and itsends are re gversely connected to and partly wound on the pullegs 20 of the head light standard shafts. ne lead of the operating cord .also'engages a direction pulley 27 under the frame of the car.

When thcshaft is turned in the direction required to turn the car to the right the pulley 7 will cause the cord 26 to turn the shaft 15 of the right-haud head light or lamp to the right, and the lead of the cord. which extends to the shaft of theleft-haud head light, will slacken. Hence the left-hand head light will continue in its normal position, held by the spring 18 and the shoulders 21, 22 parallel with the carv so as to throw its rays straight ahead. When the car turns to the left, the action is reversed. the right hand head .lightremaining straight and the left-hand head lightturn ing with the car, as will be understood.

Having thus described my invention 1 claim:

In combination. with the vertically arranged supporting shaft of a head light, a bearing for said shaft comprising a Illilll. member and .a removable member detach ably secured thereto, the said members being providedin their opposing sides with a vertical cylindrical chamber of greater disaid collars locate d inthe said chamber, connected at bearing, and means connected to-the steerameter than the shaft and through which ing gear of an automobile to automatically the latter extends, the said shaft and the main member being provided with coacting I stop shoulders, located in the said charm" the tension of its spring, when the steering her, to'limit the turningof theshaft in one gear is actuated. v direction, a spring arranged on the shaft, In testimony whereof I hereunto afilx my one end to the bearing andat the other end to the shaft and exerting its tension on the shaft to normally keep the stop shoulder of the latter in engagement with that of the JAMES MADISON FRYER.

l/Vitnesses: v

MILDRED TODHUNTER, IRVINA pEABTI-I.

turn the said shaft in one direction, against :signature in the presence of two witnesses.

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